Are you really going to try to tell me that the CLippers are worth more than the Knicks, Lakers, Dodgers, Yankees and Real Madrid?
Look at what we are talking about here. It doesn't matter how much money a prospective buyer has. Why would you pay 3.5 times what the franchise is actually worth? Forbes listed the Clippers as the 14th most valuable NBA franchise at 575 million dollars.
Again, why do you pay 3.5 times over value? The clippers don't even own their own arena.
Ballmer wanted to buy the Sacramento Kings to move them to Seattle. He offered nowhere close to 2 billion dollars for them, when he could have taken the team, moved them to Seattle, and built his own arena.
Now he's offering 2 billion dollars for this franchise that isn't even worth 1/3rd of that, and he's keeping them in LA.